After entering the dark zone, all detection equipment will become useless.
The only thing that can guide you out of here is perception and the "Quantum Harmony Device".
Basically, it can be said that Archie at this time is like sitting on a cable car in the fog, and can't see anything except what is in the "cable car".
And from time to time there would be strange cries all around.
Those voices are said to be the whispers of ancient cosmic creatures living in the dark realm.
But whether that is the case or what they look like is unknown.
Archie came with the intention of dying, but if he really wanted to wait for death in this environment, he became extremely eager to survive.
Under the suppression of this emotion, Archie felt like he was going crazy.
So he stood up, stuffed v.v into the trash can, and then pressed the smash button again.
Then the terrifying background music in the cockpit finally disappeared.
…
"Hey, you don't really want to kill me, do you?" V.V asked.
Archie was looking at the coordinates of the fourth station and had no time to pay attention to v.v.
The fourth stop is a place called "Butterfly Forest".
"Butterfly Forest", also known as "Blood Butterfly Forest", is an ancient interstellar battlefield site.
The reason why it was named "Forest of Butterflies" is because when viewed from an interstellar overview map, this interstellar battlefield site with a diameter of about 1.9 million light-years looks like a blood butterfly. Viewed from the side, there are a large number of butterflies in the site.
The spatial fissures look like dark ancient trees standing in them, hence the name "Forest of Butterflies".
This interstellar battlefield site was born about 16,000 years ago. At that time, the "Keynes Empire" that dominated the entire northern galaxy began to invade the cosmic super-federation in an effort to open up new territories.
In the beginning, due to the sudden outbreak of the war and the lack of defensive capabilities of the Universal Super Federation, the interstellar empire that adhered to the ancient imperial system was overwhelmingly powerful when it pressed on. It only took just one year to defeat the Universal Super Federation.
After occupying the richest star cluster of Thermale.
After the loss of the Thermale Star Cluster, which was the energy basis for maintaining the entire Universe Super Federation, the Universe Super Federation was extremely angry and joined forces with Shenqi and the Alien Tribe to resist the barbaric invasion of the Keynes Empire.
This battle lasted for more than a hundred years.
More than a hundred years later, the royal family of Keynes' empire was brutally assassinated by domestic rebels. The entire empire was almost bloodbathed, and the war finally stopped.
But the scars left by the war have not healed to this day.
However, this battle is not a bad thing for future generations of Super Federation residents.
Because there are a lot of available resources left on the battlefield, it can be said that the Butterfly Forest today is a gold mine exposed to everyone. It depends on whether you have the courage to fight in this lawless land and doomsday fanatics.
I raided and unearthed it.
v.v came over and looked at the coordinates and said: "Yes, it's a good place again. Let me put it this way, even if you successfully leave the Dark Territory, this Butterfly Forest will kill you!"
Archie was just joking with v.v before, but now...he really wants to dismantle this piece of shit, and he doesn't even have a good word to say!
"Thank you for reminding me, but I still have to deliver the goods. If you are afraid of death, I will throw you out of the dark realm."
v.v shut up when he heard this. If it is such a big thing, if it is thrown into the universe, no one will pick it up until the next big collapse of the universe starts.
to it.
Archie looked out the window. It was pitch black, as if he was underwater.
It looks upsetting.
Archie decided to wander around the warehouse, maybe he could come across a damaged item, so he could blatantly open the packages on the pretext of "checking the integrity of the items."
After arriving at the warehouse, Archie bypassed the ordinary goods and went straight to the dozen or so important packages he was going to deliver today.
Three of them have been signed for, and the package in front of me now, which looks like an oversized banana, is the fourth item to be delivered.
The sender is a "Super Federation A-level defense soldier" named Ye Yuan, who is said to be the eldest son of the Ye family.
There is no clear name in the recipient column, only a detailed coordinate address.
There was a note attached that said "must be delivered on time".
on time?
Archie thought for a moment while dragging his chin, and thought to himself: 'Could it be a bomb?'
Just as I was thinking about it, the cabin suddenly started shaking violently.
At first Archie thought it was just a spatial fluctuation the warship encountered while flying, but as the shaking continued to intensify, Archie knew something was wrong, and he was afraid that those guys who specialize in killing "couriers" were coming.
Thinking of this, Archie immediately authorized the activation of the fully automatic combat robots in the battleship. Although they have no will of their own, they have extremely high combat effectiveness and are the best in-ship defense system.
After activating these robots, Archie hurriedly returned to the cockpit, only to find that V.V had actually shut down and was rolling around in the cockpit like a ball.
Archie ran over, picked up V.V and fixed it on the wall, then turned on the space drawing device.
The data displayed subsequently prompted Archie's battleship to enter a space with very messy timing. Here, the "time warp engine" carried by the battleship itself seemed to have eaten something bad and became extremely unstable when operating.
That's why there was such a violent shaking.
After confirming this, Archie's only option to ensure that the battleship does not fall apart is to turn off the warp engine and "park" at the current location.
But it was like someone had put a noose on it and had to stop and wait for death.
Archie is in a dilemma.
Depending on the frequency of the jitter, the warp engine can persist for at most ten minutes. After ten minutes, the battleship will be torn apart by itself, and Archie will undoubtedly die by then.
But ten minutes is enough for Archie to travel through the Milky Way at super-light speed. This distance should be enough for Archie to leave the Dark Realm.
But the problem now is that Archie is not sure how long it will be before he leaves the Dark Realm. If he calculates wrong, it will be too much of a loss.
so……
After much deliberation, Archie decided to stop the car and contact the "enemy" head-on.
It does not take much time to turn off the "time warp engine", but during the process of turning off, there will be a strange sense of time gap. It feels like everything has slowed down. This sense of gap will last for one to three days.
About minutes, during this period, if an enemy shoots at Archie, Archie will have no choice but to wait for death.
'I won't carry it like this, right?'
Archie thought silently, but the next second, he saw a black shadow coming to him at an extremely fast speed.
Then Archie didn't wait to see who it was.
He lost consciousness.
…
When he woke up again, Archie saw a beam of light, which was very dazzling.
He rubbed his eyes, his mind was confused, and it took him a long time to realize that the dazzling light was emitted by a star several times the size of the sun.
And the reason why it was a beam of light was because he was stuffed into a narrow escape cabin, and only from here could he see a little bit of outside light.
What's even more terrible is that after Archie woke up, he found that he was being pulled closer by the star. It seemed that he would be completely wiped out by the heat emitted by the star before long.
‘Young master, am I destined not to be the man who can walk out of the dark realm alive?! Ah? Who am I? Why should I be treated like this!’ Archie felt so sad in his heart.
But what's the use of being sad? Now he can only spend the last time of his life facing the death in front of him.
At that moment Archie thought of his past self.
Before becoming a cosmic super FedEx specialist, Archie was a "talent scout" for the Glorious Republic.
However, this "talent scout" is not that talent scout. Archie's job is not to search for the stars of tomorrow for the entertainment media, but to go on the road alone, piloting a spaceship to an unfamiliar galaxy to explore new colonies for other Super Federation citizens.
This job has been around since humans were on earth, so it is not considered a special occupation even now.
But this job is not available to everyone and not everyone can accept it.
After all, every departure may be a journey of no return.
But when he was young, Archie was full of curiosity about the unknown. In his heart, uncovering the veil of the mysterious planet was more exciting than kissing a girl when he first fell in love.
Therefore, Archie has been determined to become a qualified talent scout since he was very young.
Facts have proved that hard work pays off and hard work will eventually pay off.
Archie became a talent scout at the age of thirty-nine and took V.V on a journey.
But who would have thought that Archie would meet the person he was destined for the first time and fall in love with her.
Although there is no explicit rule that talent scouts are not allowed to get married and have children, such a job is still a bit inappropriate for lovers.
After weighing for a long time whether to stay or continue the journey, Archie made a promise to his lover, saying that as long as he completed one star exploration trip, he would give up his job and accompany her with peace of mind.
My lover didn't object either.
But Archie never dreamed that it would be one hundred and ninety-five years since he left.
Perhaps for the scouts, one hundred and ninety-five years seems like yesterday, because their spaceship has the most advanced "time warp engine" in the universe. After the engine wraps around the spacecraft, time outside the spacecraft will flow endlessly.
In contrast, time inside the spacecraft continues to slow down in a constant state.
so……
When Archie returned, he realized that the girl who loved him deeply had waited until her death without waiting for his return.
This incident was a huge blow to Archie.
When he stood in front of his lover's grave, Archie clearly felt that the reluctance to kiss his lover goodbye yesterday was still in his heart, but today he had to accept that she had grown old and left the world in lonely waiting...
Time has become a curse.
For a long time, it was difficult for Archie to come out of the shadows.
Although he could accept memory erasure, he did not choose to forget.
To this day, more than one hundred and ninety years have passed, and Archie still dreams every night that he has just embarked on a journey.